Hello. I'm inquiring about my options to my girlfriend move from Brasil to Canada to start a new life with me. I have Family here and I'm Canadian. What would be my options or what can I do to go about starting my life with her and if the process for gay marriage is different?
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Marriage is marriage to Canada, it doesn't matter what kind of marriage as long as it's legal.
Once you have lived together with your partner for 12 months to become common-law, or after you get married, only then can then sponsor her for PR.
If she comes to Canada as a visitor and then you get married here, you can file her PR app using the "Inside Canada" method and she will get an Open Work Permit to stay in Canada until her PR app is approved.
Hopefully you have a well established dating and engagement history already to support your relationship and eventual marriage. You should move over to the Family Class section of the forum if you want to ask more questions.
Once you have lived together with your partner for 12 months to become common-law, or after you get married, only then can then sponsor her for PR.
If she comes to Canada as a visitor and then you get married here, you can file her PR app using the "Inside Canada" method and she will get an Open Work Permit to stay in Canada until her PR app is approved.
Hopefully you have a well established dating and engagement history already to support your relationship and eventual marriage. You should move over to the Family Class section of the forum if you want to ask more questions.
What confuses me the most is how can I live with my significant other in Canada for 12 months without having the PR? I'm in the US and he is in Canada and we would love to live together for one year and go the Sponsorship PR option after that, however, how can I stay in Canada for that long to get to that point? What would I need to apply for?
You would come over as a regular visitor and then extend your stay once you are close to the end of your visit.
Is there a way to get guaranteed entry with that? I just tried moving as a visitor a few weeks ago and got denied at the border because they didn't want me to live there long-term, which I understand that to an extent, however I do want to be with my boyfriend in Montreal. Would the best option be to just apply for a tourist visa under the circumstances that I'm living with my boyfriend and write that on the application or is there a better option than that? Just trying to find a guaranteed option since I got denied at the border and don't want that to happen again.
No, entry is never guaranteed. If you are a US citizen then there is no "visa" to apply for since US citizens are visa-exempt. The only way is to show up at the border, state your reason for entering, and CBSA would usually allow you to enter with 6-months visitor status.
CBSA and IRCC look at "living" in Canada differently.
CBSA does not allow visitors to enter Canada if they think they want to stay here indefinitely and will not leave after their status is over.
However once in Canada as a visitor, IRCC doesn't care if you stay long term or apply to extend your status to qualify as common-law.
Unfortunately since you've already been denied at the border once, this will be on your record and you will probably be send to secondary inspection on your next entry. You need to convince CBSA you don't intend to "move" to Canada, and you are in fact just visiting. So have some proof of ties to the US, show funds to support your stay, have luggage that would be typical of just a visitor, any proof of return trip back to US, etc etc.
That's ultimately what I'm worried about right now is going to cross again even for a vacation. I was planning, since I got denied 2 weeks ago, to go on a one week vacation up to see my boyfriend at the end of August. Should I wait a certain amount of time before going to Canada again and not go in August? I hate being in a bad standing in their records, and am not sure what to do there and extremely nervous to even visit now. What steps do I need to take or how long should I wait to visit and be in a good standing on my record?
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